Honeyglue
| Release Date: June 3, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
3
Negative:
5
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50
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJun 9, 2016
Writer-director James Bird took inspiration from real-life experiences, and the story is obviously heartfelt. But despite a stylized, edgy surface, Honeyglue doesn’t stray from the well-worn weepy narrative. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJun 9, 2016
Jessica Tuck gives an emotionally raw performance as Morgan’s mother, and Amanda Plummer’s turn as a trailer park resident sheds more light on Jordan than all the other scenes combined. Read full review
50
The Film StageJared MobarakJun 2, 2016
Honeyglue has a very good movie inside it, but decisions brought on by inexperience prevent it from sprouting its wings. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenJun 16, 2016
It’s Honeyglue, a romantic drama, which fittingly, given that title, is sticky with sentimentality. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterHarry WindsorJun 2, 2016
Writer-director James Bird’s second feature tells an entirely familiar story with a dash of transvestism thrown in, but doesn’t do anything interesting with that twist – and the lumpen screenplay is drag enough. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneMay 31, 2016
It's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience. Read full review
10
VarietyNick SchagerJun 6, 2016
Throughout, Bird’s visuals are consistently flat, and his habit of cinematographically spinning around his characters (at a dinner table, on a dance floor, in a field) is dizzying in an unpleasant, nausea-inducing way — thus creating a fitting marriage of form and content. Read full review
10
Village VoiceKenji FujishimaJun 1, 2016
[An] unintentionally hilarious tragic romance. Read full review
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